Rick Talan (3 November 1960 – 30 September 2015) was a Dutch football player.

Club career

A pacy striker, Talan started his career with local amateur side

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and joined

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in 1978. He scored 44 goals in 95 official matches for the club and was part of the squad that won the club's first

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is ...

title in 1981. In the

1983–84 Eredivisie The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1983–84 season was contested by 18 teams. Feyenoord won the championship. League standings Results See also * 1983–84 Eerste Divisie * 1983–84 KNVB Cup The 66th edition of the KNVB Cup started on October ...

season he scored 20 goals in 33 league games for AZ. In 1982, he played half a year for Belgian side

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, scoring twice in 14 official matches. He finishes his career in 1988 after playing almost 100 games with

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Personal life and death

Talan's younger brother

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also became a professional footballer and earned 8 senior caps for

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. Talan owned an accountancy company in

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. Rick Talan suffered from a brain tumor in 2007 and underwent two operations. The tumor however returned a year later and he died in September 2015.Oud-voetballer Ricky Talan (54) overleden
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Honours

**''Winners (1): ''

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Talan, Rick 1960 births 2015 deaths Footballers from Katwijk Men's association football forwards Dutch men's footballers Dutch people of Indonesian descent VV Katwijk players AZ Alkmaar players Cercle Brugge K.S.V. players HFC Haarlem players SBV Vitesse players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Dutch expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Belgian Pro League players Deaths from brain tumor